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The Institute boasts a wide variety of equipment which allows us to design, develop, prototype, test and optimise products and experimental rigs.

All of our facilities and expertise are located on one site in the state-of-the-art laboratories which are housed within the Sports Technology Institute. Our team can therefore progress from initial concept, right through to finished product in an efficient and commercially sensitive manner.

We possess a great deal of bespoke research equipment, including ball launchers, test rigs, specialist implements and kicking robots We also have a very well equipped machine tool shop which enables us to manufacture prototypes, machine metals and create polymers and composites in a way that most research organisations cannot.

We have the skills to create bespoke equipment designed to achieve the aims of a particular research project. For example, we have developed a bespoke ball kicking robot in our work with adidas and a specialist rig for testing the strength and durability of rugby shirts for Nike.